The Sulaimaniyah demonstrations entered their third consecutive day, at a time of intensified violence and security repression against protesting students.

As Sulaymaniyah university students organized huge demonstrations, they roamed the streets and alleys of Sulaymaniyah, on Tuesday, and arrived at Salem Street, the center of Sulaymaniyah city.

In this context, the security forces used violence against the demonstrations in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, as they suppressed the students with tear gas, batons and shooting in the air, in an attempt to end the protests.

Sulaymaniyah Governorate witnessed the blocking of some main roads, as a result of student rallies that roamed the city’s streets without getting bored, despite the excessive violence they faced.

The PUK party of Kurdistan, which rules Sulaymaniyah, commented that they are with the demands of the students, with the peaceful demonstration, and demanded that the Erbil government implement their demands.

In addition, the universities of Erbil and Dohuk witnessed large student demonstrations, in solidarity with the students of Sulaymaniyah, in rejection of the oppression that affects them.

Hundreds of Erbil university students also marched towards the Ministry of Education building in the Kurdistan Regional Government, to demand the payment of students’ financial dues.

The demonstrations resulted in the injury of dozens of students, not to mention the detention of dozens of others by the police forces in Sulaymaniyah, amid calls for security to calm down and avoid violence.

Students in the demonstrations are demanding the Kurdistan Regional Government to pay their monthly salaries allocated to them, after the Kurdistan Regional Government cut them off 7 years ago.

The monthly financial dues amount to 60 thousand dinars for each student from the governorate center, and 100 thousand dinars for each student from the various districts and districts of the governorate.

The youth of the Kurdistan region and Iraq suffer from widespread unemployment and a lack of job opportunities for them, which prompted thousands of them to emigrate from the region.

Migration has increased in the last two months towards Belarus, as young people of the region are scattering the borders between Belarus and Poland, seeking to enter the European Union and obtain asylum.

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